Sunday, May 22, 2005
(8:20 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
My Big News
I have told many of you in private already, but out of fear that some technicality would keep it from becoming a reality, I have avoided announcing it "publicly," on the blog. The technicality could theoretically still happen, but here it is anyway: University of Chicago Press will be publishing my translation of Jacques Derrida's "Literature in Secret: An Impossible Filiation" in an expanded edition of The Gift of Death. I just found out this week, so I don't know when it would appear, etc., though I will of course keep the entire world notified.I may now also rework the "commentary" section of my thesis to create a nice little article. Another minor bonus: CTS will possibly accept this in place of a formal language exam, as proof that I am conversant in French.
In related news, the "blog book" is proceeding apace. If the pieces are consistently as good as Discard the Name's, which I read last night -- and I'm sure they will be -- then this will surely be the greatest philosophico-religio-political essay collection ever compiled by bloggers.
